An estimated hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants married to U.S. citizens will soon have an opportunity to become legal residents without having to serve a years-long punishment.

President Obama proposed the policy change in January 2012 and it is scheduled to go into effect March 4.

The change was proposed to end situations in which illegal-immigrant spouses (and often parents) have to return to their native countries to serve the ban of admission  as long as 10 years for staying illegally in the United States for more than a year.

This is a tricky one. In general, I think any illegal entry into our country should lead to fingerprinting and a permanent ban on reentry or just about any path to citizenship. Marriage to a US citizen is different though, and I’d have to see the details and give that particular situation some though.

Ah, we had hoped that Mitt would have made half as much hay out of this kind of stuff as he did about questionable allegations concerning his GOP rivals. We knew the score, but so many conservative minded Americans have just tuned out.

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posted on 02/02/2013 6:57:39 PM PST
by HiTech RedNeck
(How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)

I could understand the mechanism of a wink-n-nod to squatters in such circumstances, but how does he ever expect courts to buy it? And none of the Democrats feeding on this stuff are going to ask how he can do it.

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posted on 02/02/2013 7:08:39 PM PST
by HiTech RedNeck
(How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)

If someone comes here on a 6 month visa, falls in love, and marries an American, that is reasonably straight forward, and the non-American, in some cases, might not even have to leave the country to get the proper papers.

On the other hand, if someone comes here on a 6 month visa, gets arrested here 3 years later, and then suddenly marries an American, most likely that's completely bogus, and the penalty kicks in.

And it doesn't matter what issue it is - immigration, "healthcare," guns, you name it - the executive office have obviously just decided to skip that tiresome lawmaking phase and go right on to the decree from The Won on high.

My only question is why our legislators are not screaming their collective heads off at being so blithely ignored. If nothing else, it shows us that they are clearly not necessary and shouldn't be getting their paychecks.

I’m trying to guess just what will be the tipping point...what will be the catalyst for the next civil war. Right now, it looks like firearms confiscation. Obama might get more background checks through Congress, but I doubt Congress will go for any attempts at outright seizure. So the king will issue his decree or decrees, people will resist, he will send authorities to enforce his edicts and then look out!

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